Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-295) and index.
Contents:
1. Contested indicators -- 2. The uncounted: Key populations -- 3. 'Something more than data' -- 4. Cost-effectiveness and human rights -- 5. Modeling the end of AIDS -- 6. Sustainability, transition and crisis -- 7. Listening to women -- 8. 'So many hurdles just to leave the house' -- 9. The Panopticon and the Potemkin -- 10. Data from the ground up -- Reflexion questions.
Summary:
"Health service conditions in Venezuela are deplorable ... Hospitalization areas without running water, fully contaminated surgery rooms, not enough anesthesia to treat the wounded. Several thousand people with HIV are now without antiretroviral treatment (Red Venezolana de Gente Positiva [RVG+] 2016, 1). In June 2016, a network of people living with HIV in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wrote to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland to appeal for urgent help. Like other global and national HIV agencies, the Global Fund was established in the early 2000s, in a rapid response to international grassroots mobilization: people living with HIV and those affected by TB and malaria, who came together to march, tirelessly advocate for their right to health. Many were dying because they could not afford life-saving treatment. Early on, this movement won powerful allies, such as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He told a summit of African leaders:"-- Provided by publisher.
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